#4 Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld by Seanan McGuire

This may be the eleventh book in the series but with the constantly changing POV characters as the series goes on it stays fresh.  This one can work a start to the series if you don’t mind spoilers about the previous books.  Alice has been looking for her husband for the last 50 years.  She appears in her early twenties and is covered in magical tattoos that help her heal and use magic on her search for her missing husband.  She is helped by a Naga that has been a family friend on her quest. She works for him tracking down bounties for him while she searches for any trace of where the Crossroads might have sent her husband.  When she finds a book in a cave while she is retrieving her backpack, she gets a new direction to search in.  She also discovers that things are not what she believes about what she has been doing.  There are lots of flashbacks during the book as a part of her traveling between worlds. When she finally starts hitting the right direction to get to Thomas things start adding up to something she doesn’t want to know.

 

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